Thomas Øvlisen
Thomas Øvlisen’s artistic practice incorporates a juxtaposition of traditionally valued materials and processes with found objects and unconventional materials such as pet plastic, shopping bags, and table tennis table tops. This unique approach creates a platform that challenges established notions of material value and highlights the artist’s engagement with contemporary consumer culture and sustainability concerns.
Thomas Øvlisen has been heavily influenced by the landscapes around his native shores of Denmark, demarcated by horizon lines where the sea meets the sky in the distance. The evidence of time and erosion of water on rock and land has had a recurring visual presence in Øvlisen’s work, from his early abstract paintings to hand-sanded sculptural objects with a weathered patina, to recent paintings of seagulls flying towards a horizon line. Øvlisen’s work evokes a joyful curiosity and reverence for nature
